DIY
These are all the posts in the “DIY” category.
You may also be interested in the making category, specifically the bits on involving wood.
Buff the chicken has been in isolation since last Wednesday since the others started really *viciously* bullying her (as I said on Twitter, it’s disturbing how vicious chickens can be). I think there have been pecking order issues over the last few weeks and it’s stopped her being able to eat properly. She feels very [...]
Cor, I feel like I’ve not written here for weeks! Like Christmas, Easter doesn’t mean anything to us here – not even the consumption of chocolate – so we’ve just had four days of doing nothing. Well, not doing nothing… On Friday, I spent a lot of time reading about Square Foot Gardening. It’s something [...]
I took these pictures of the beck (stream) at the bottom of our garden yesterday afternoon. (Downstream/upstream respectively) And I took this picture of the water pipe in our kitchen after we’d finished mopping up 3 mop buckets of water from the kitchen floor. Sigh.
As I mentioned in my “spending during my no spend week” round-up, our boiler broke and had to be fixed this week. It stopped working last Sunday – we thought it was just a sensor playing up but when the plumber replaced the thermostats on Tuesday evening, it still didn’t fix the problem so he [...]
I finally built my long-awaited shelter for the chicken run on Saturday – hurrah! It will provide more stomping space (since they can stomp around underneath and on top), more shelter for the rain and somewhere sheltered to hang another drinker. My original plan had been very fancy – involving a sloped solid platform (to [...]
